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Had my wee porch awning up at new year, 60+mph winds, I thought at one point the caravan was going to blow over. But the wee awning didnt move. I had it fixed down everywhere you could and guy ropes on i

Its just your luck, and a lot to do with what grip your pegs get in the ground. I use long heavy pegs, the ones that look like a long nail, with a welded cross section at the top. The ones that came with any awning i have bought are crap.

Quote: Originally posted by Marilyn51 on 05/1/2013

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We're on a seasonal and season before last our awning blew down twice. Last year we added extra poles and storm straps with very long pegs which have a deep grove running the entire length and we had no movement at all. I'm a bit worried about this coming season though with the ground being so sodden and just hope that we have better weather than last year. We're going to the 'van tomorrow to check everything out so fingers crossed. The site owner is fantastic though and if there had been any problems he would have called.

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Checked out the caravan and everything was perfect. This is the second winter with a cover and it was well worth the money.

Only problem was that on the way home got a puncture doing 75mph on the motorway 100yds from our exit - still at least it wasn't raining. Roll on March 2nd.